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Elephants in Oakland

Elephants everywhere A party pays ransom Blind spots catch a head wind Talking heads sell snake oil Elephants up-ended Game hunters in a full house Last night I danced with

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St. Louis Cemetery No. 1

View, St. Louis Cemetery Charles left for the graveyard to do on his homework. “There’s nothing crazy about it,” he told his friend Etienne who was flunking algebra. “Nobody minds,

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Heart Case

By now, her dating profile had eroded into basics—where she grew up, how she got to the Southwest, number of children and their ages, a bunch of statistics making her

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Coupon Lady

What a day, is right. There were hardly any coupons, just one for an ice-cream sauce with taste-alike cherry pieces and chocolate sprinkles. I’ve had that before. And some blue-looking

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It Was Animation, I Know

Nested Structures Concentric rings settle on me. I am enclosed within a set of wooden dolls. I am trying to reach the smallest, the one that is not hollow. Bounciness

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